Word: risked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Grissom himself said in words that may long be remembered: "If we die, we want people to accept it. We are in a risky business, and we hope that if anything happens to us it will not delay the program. The conquest of space is worth the risk of life...
Army officers who supported P'eng in 1959 probably realize that their interests lie with the anti-Mao, expert faction. But they face a dilemma. They don't want to risk another defeat, especially in this case, when no one knows (or likes to think about) the fate of the losers. Yet, they are not eager to give substantial help to the reds...
...only if it somehow enhances his own awareness of the world-by sight, touch or emotion-but it has to be his own decision. He has a duty to look long, learn and then judge, to like or not to like. He may make hideous mistakes. That is his risk-too few people take it-and better than abdicating personal reaction in favor of fashionable theory. For time, as today's uncertain men agree, is the only final judge; and the live viewer with his feet aching is the first voter in a poll whose results he may never...
...Classical hemophilia, resulting from the absence of a clotting factor from the blood, is carried in an X chromosome. The mother-carrier, with one such abnormal chromosome, derives it from her father. West Germany's Dr. Widukind Lenz, of thalidomide fame, now reports that the risk of a woman's inheriting such a mutation increases sharply with the father's age at the time of her conception...
...create a climate conducive to business investment, Rhodes took the political risk of sharply paring state expenditures, has kept Ohio one of only ten states with neither a statewide corporate nor a personal income tax. Constantly on the phone to out-of-state executives, the Governor has also worked to get existing Ohio companies to expand, attended 800 "industry appreciation" dinners in all parts of the state. Unlike most governors, Rhodes did not complain when the Federal Government closed local installations, instead welcomed the challenge of getting private industry to take over abandoned sites...